The 2024 Indiecasties

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It's the most wonderful time of the year! We're giving out our annual Indiecasties awards for 2024. Steven and Ian start with a brief conversation about the modern state of Spin magazine (0:00) and some big-picture thoughts on 2024, and then get about the business of giving out their trophies for the best and worst things of this year (9:40). Categories include: Most Valuable Annoying Music Story (15:59), Feel-Good Story Of The Year (23:27), Most 2024 Album Of 2024 (28:57), Most Memory-Holed Album (37:28), Best Musician Catastrophe (47:28), The Hyped Album That Was Actually Really Good (54:15), The Most Egregiously Overrated Album On Year-End Lists (59:57), and the year's MVP (1:06:50).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.5	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast on the show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:21.6	In this episode,
0:29.1	we hand out our annual Indie Casties Awards for 2024. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, his artist of the year for the second year in a row is Killer Mike.
0:35.1	Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? Yeah, we had to do a whole lot of like internal editing in our minds before we
0:42.1	recorded this episode about how much we're going to talk about like spin just being the single most avant-garde out there publication.
0:50.0	But I'm thinking, you know, with Killer Mike, like when you listen to the old Outcast albums or like all the organized noise ones, they have like the big Rube intro where you get the spoken word talking about like these like deep spiritual matters and maybe Killer Mice going to do that.
1:04.8	But like instead of Big Rube, we're going to get like Bill Maher talking about like the death of woke or whatever.
1:10.5	Yeah.
1:10.7	I know,
1:11.2	you know those two are good.
1:12.4	Like there's such a,
1:13.4	there's such a clear cut career path for guys I used to think were like really
1:18.6	truth tellers back in the day.
1:21.1	Like,
1:21.2	because don't get,
1:22.6	like those early killer Mike albums are fucking awesome.
1:25.5	And I will never,
1:27.1	ever listen to again, kind of knowing where things went.
1:30.4	But yeah, Killer Mike.
1:32.6	He's, I, the word on the street is strong that he will be sweeping the Indycastes this year.
1:39.0	We'll see what happens.
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